Thulani Maseko is a Swaziland human rights lawyer. He was born at Luhleko, a place near Bhunya in Swaziland's Manzini region. On the 18th of March 2014, Thulani was jailed for contempt of court.[1]
Why is Thulani languishing in gaol? Thulani Maseko is languishing in jail today. He was arrested in March for articles he penned in the February and March editions of The Nation magazine13. Do you know the crime he is charged with? “Contempt of Court”. Before we discuss this charge, here is what the human rights lawyer said about why he, and Bheki Makhubu14, are in jail: The answer to the [2]
- ↑ http://www.southernafricalitigationcentre.org/2014/04/14/thulani-maseko-and-bheki-makhubu-contempt-of-court-case-timeline-of-proceedings/
- ↑ 11 About this, Thulani wrote: Our argument that the very purpose of political parties’ existence is to contest political power, it makes a mockery of democracy, therefore, to suggest that political parties exist, but not for the purpose for which they exist in the first place. This is an extract from Thulani’s brief profile whose link is in the first footnote.
- ↑ http://www.thenation.co.sz/index.php/10-news-july-2014/36-why-we-are-jailed
- ↑ http://www.swazilii.org/sz/judgment/high-court/2014/152
- ↑ http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Top-rights-lawyer-arrested-20090604
- ↑ http://www.osisa.org/other/hrdb/swaziland/swaziland-democracy-and-political-participation